[Synotic]

In an attempt to highlight our differences, I'd like to hear some of the little cultural quirks about different areas or countries. I'll start:

West coast vs. East coast: West says "binder" for the larger, zippered binders, while the East says "trapper." West says soda, east says pop (probably more well known).

France (probably other countries too): All carts are connected to one another when stationed in the cart area. To disconnect them, you have to put in a Euro or a coin shaped like one to remove the cart. Annoying, but it keeps the carts out of the lots. Also there are no baggers at all, and not getting bags at all isn't uncommon (like Aldi in the US). In a supermarket, or similar big store, the cashiers are, it seems, exclusively women. (I noticed this when I saw the "uniform" in a particular store was a pink shirt; looking down the both sides, I noticed they were all women.) However, in places where there is just one cashier, there doesn't seem to be a preference. The toilets are usually separated into a separate "toilet room." Bread (a baguette) is always eaten during lunch and dinner. I don't know if it was my particular family, but every dish is wiped clean with bread. The soda cans are heavier. I don't know if it's a different alloy or distribution of metals, but it's annoying as it always seems as if there is more soda left in the can.

Feel free to be more organized.

[Kevin]

LTNS Sy

[Atomic Rooster]

I was raised on aunt, then a few years ago I noticed people pronouncing it awnt...especially black African Americans.

Did I miss something?

[mojo2]

Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster

I was raised on aunt, then a few years ago I noticed people pronouncing it awnt...especially black African Americans.

Did I miss something?

Well, you kinda skipped the large subsection of folks who call it an 'aint.' As in, Aunt (pronounced Aint) Bea on the Andy Griffith Show.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by Synotic

West says soda, east says pop (probably more well known).

South says "coke." Not as much anymore, I think, but that's the native Southern word for it.

Incidentally, funny story about that: At my mom's work once, the new guy offered to throw everyone a kind of get-to-know-you pizza party. At the end of the invitations, he wrote, "BYOP." Everybody at the office was getting pissed because they thought he meant "Bring Your Own Pizza." Fortunately, my mom had lived out east, so she recognized the term and saved him from a reputation as an amazingly bold cheapskate.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster

I was raised on aunt, then a few years ago I noticed people pronouncing it awnt...especially black African Americans.

Did I miss something?

You're going to have to clarify how "aunt" is pronounced differently from "awnt." I pronounce both "aunt" and "ant" the same, personally.

[Big Mac]

Originally Posted by Chuckit

You're going to have to clarify how "aunt" is pronounced differently from "awnt." I pronounce both "aunt" and "ant" the same, personally.

Yeah, that's what he meant - he pronounces aunt as "ant," and the pronunciation to which he is referring places a short u in the word, so that it rhymes with haunt.

[budster101]

Actually in the show, "Andy Griffith" pronounces Awnt Bee like this: Aint Bay with a southern drawl...

What do you want? They named their son: Opee, pronounced: Oh-pee....

[Big Mac]

Originally Posted by budster101

Actually in the show, "Andy Griffith" pronounces Awnt Bee like this: Aint Bay with a southern drawl...

What do you want? They named their son: Opee, pronounced: Oh-pee....

Right, I'm not disputing that pronunciation - although I have only heard it from one source: Andy Griffith. But the original poster was referring to the pronunciation popular in African American communities.

[budster101]

Oh. As in... Sooth Afreekin?

[anthonyvthc]

I moved to the west about a year ago. I was made fun of for saying 'wicked,' meaning 'extremely' (as in 'this soup is wicked hot; that girl is wicked hot). Out here ' hella' is the more appropriate word. I think that hella sucks.

[Big Mac]

Originally Posted by anthonyvthc

I moved to the west about a year ago. I was made fun of for saying 'wicked,' meaning 'extremely' (as in 'this soup is wicked hot; that girl is wicked hot). Out here ' hella' is the more appropriate word. I think that hella sucks.

And most of us thought Eric Cartman came up with the prefix hella.

[budster101]

Chicago-speak.

http://www.seanparnell.com/Chicago/Chicagoese.htm

Learn to talk like a Chicagoan... o'er by dare. (Over there)

[MrForgetable]

playbill and program?